Is there any danger to reoccurent sleep paralysis?

I have experienced sleep paralysis for the first time ine my life on wednesday morning and last night it happened twice. I was wondering if t here are any dangerous in this. I went to the doctor's thursday on a unrelated note and told him about my experience and he explained that it was sleep paralysis. I have somethign wrong with my heart (need further tests to know what it is), could a heart defect cause sleep paralysis? Or something like sleep paralysis?

Sleep paralysis i a frequent phenomenon in youg and anxious people.
We call it "parasomnias" (to impress people), and there are several of them
One, the most frequent, is the sleep paralysis ( not a real paralysis but really scares away the wits out of you), and seeing "insects" crawling on the wall when you are half asleep or half awake...another parasomnia, is falling to the floor for some few seconds, after a burst of laughters..
Sleep paralysis is experioenved by 83,6% of all people, in one moment of life or another, however its extremely common in anxious, young people.
The feeling is being awake for some few seconds 10-20, and being unable to move any part of your body, even when you are aware that you are awake, and have the purpose of moving the limbs...and cant do so...until you can move a toe for instance, and the ability to move spreads to the rest of the body in 2-3 seconds....
Its a very frightening experience, to say the least. however it is caused by anxiety, and will dissapear alone or if annoying too much, then mild amounts of antidepressants (amytriptiline 25 mg ate bed tome or imipramine 10 mg) usually resolves the problem.
Is an all too common question of young people in reproductive age, and aven more scared (unnecesarily so) are boys and girls between 8 to 14 years of age..
Nobody has been harmed or diseased by sleep paralysis,....its more annoying than dangerous (it bears no danger in itself, however it expresses daytime anxiety)
Tou will be OK no matter what...

if the Dr says so=get the extra tests done to ease your mind

Sleep paralysis is not a dangerous thing it is a built in saftey device for your body. What it is for is to protect you from harming yourself when you are dreaming. Sometimes when people dream they tend to move rapidly because of whats going on in the dream.

For example, if in your dream you are about to get hit by a car, you try and jump out of the way and you may fall off your bed and bump your head on your night stand. You probably experience sleep paralysis almost everynight but you don't realize it because you are sleep. Every now and them your mind will wake up before your body does and your body is still in the sleep paralysis mode and your mind gets a chance to notice this and wonders whats going on. Thats what happened to you. Its nothing to worry about.

The next time your mind wakes up and your body can't move, don't try to fight it and force movement, just relax, think pleasant thoughts and give your body a few minutes to wake up.

Some people, that have never heard of sleep paralysis, are afraid. Especially elderly and supersticious people. They think they have had a visit from the the devil or from demons. They are still somewhat sleep and may then start to have dreams about demons and devils and this is further confirmation of their belief.